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Samvel Avakian
I’m an Econ PhD dropout/Data Analyst looking for a position that would be appealing to someone interested in both industry and academia
Career
Data Analyst
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Yandex
current - 2021
- I do product analytics for Yandex Direct, a service for placing targeted ads
- I lead the AB-testing part of the analytics at Direct - I work closely with the product team to design experiments, design and pick metrics, and eventually calculate the results if needed. I use a proprietary Python framework to automate the calculation process.
- Aside from AB-testing, I also do various ad-hoc tasks and BI-related work
Junior to Senior Analyst
Department of fiscal policy and long-term planning
Ministry of Finance
2021 - 2018
- Used R to automate routine tasks, wrote daily reports on the latest news (key data releases/policy decisions), dealt with routine data wrangling/simple analytics tasks
- Built and maintained simple projections of oil production and oil-related tax expenses using R. The project provided analytical support to a major overhaul of oil taxation in Russia
R Packages
hearthstone - R package for competitive Hearthstone players
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2020
- Solves for Nash equilibrium in mixed strategies in various Hearthstone tournament formats, albeit with suboptimal efficiency
- Refutes the universal consensus regarding equilibrial pick order in one of the tournament formats
- Includes a vignette describing the theory behind the solvers
Education
PhD Candidate, Economics
Faculty of Economics, Institutional Economics department
Lomonosov Moscow State University
2020 - 2018
- Completed the coursework, passed the qualifying exams, but dropped out afterwards
M.S., Economics
Faculty of Economics, Institutional Economics department
Lomonosov Moscow State University
2018 - 2016
- Thesis: Political budget cycles: evidence from Russian regions
B.S., Economics
Faculty of Economics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
2016 - 2012
- Admitted at age 14
- Thesis: Welfare effects of alcohol excise taxes: evidence from Russia
Research Experience
Research Assistant
Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions
New Economic School
2019
- Co-authored a small paper that got published in a minor linguistics journal
- My task was to research and implement several methods of estimating “phonetical” distance between several Asian accents of English